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• Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Mistake, Opposites

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• Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

  John Calvin

  John Calvin (2002). “Tracts and Treatises of John Calvin, 3 Volumes”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

  Roger Federer

  Inspirational, Sports, Work

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• ...the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when the cupboard is full as when it is bare. In these defining moments, the crisis doesn't create one's characterit reveals it.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Giving, Defining Moments, Cupboards

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• Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Self, Denial, Facts

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.33, Beacon Press

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• That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kindness, Principles, Grass

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2014). “Baptismal Regeneration”, p.17, Curiosmith

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• The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Demand, Humans, Stills

  Attributed in "Democracy, socialization, and conflicting loyalties in East and West" by Russell Francis Farnen, (p. 52), 1996.

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• Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its end.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Justice, Goal

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• I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Birth, Moments

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. It is the practice of sacrificing to those whom we meet in society, all the little inconveniences and preferences which will gratify them, and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration; it is the giving a pleasing and flattering turn to our expressions, which will conciliate others, and make them pleased with us as well as themselves. How cheap a price for the good will of another!

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Expression, Practice

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• Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life.

  James May

  Things In Life, Important, Our Family

  Source: www.entrepreneurship-interviews.com

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• Keeping up with everything I do requires some sacrifices, but once and a while I need to take some time to myself.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Needs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Jew, Isaac

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• For reasons known only to him, God has chosen to work through men and women who are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the "thing" he has placed in their hearts to do. If God bas birthed a vision in you, it is only a matter of time until you will come upon the precipice of sacrifice.

  Andy Stanley

  Heart, Men, Vision

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• To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless. Love is willing to completely give up your life for someone, to make sacrifices and put them first.

  Benjamin Stone

  Giving Up, Love Is, Selfless

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Dream, Giving, Give It Your All

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.

  Confucius

  Home, People, Feelings

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• Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

  Norman Thomas

  Men, Liberty, Poverty

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• Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Answers, Principles, Finals

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “I Loved this People: Testimonies of Responsibility”, London : S.P.C.K.

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• There is no doctrine more fundamental to our work than the Atonement of Jesus Christ. At every appropriate opportunity, testify of the Savior and of the power of His Atoning sacrifice. Use scriptures that teach of Him and why He is the perfect pattern for everyone in life.4 You will need to study diligently. Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord. With a solid, personal doctrinal foundation, you will be a powerful source for sharing vital truths with others who desperately need them.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Powerful, Teaching

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• Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Clever, Men

  "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

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• Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. All praise to thee, who safe hast kept and hast refreshed me while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless life partake. All praise to thee, my God, this night for all the blessings of the light. Keep me, oh keep me, King of Kings, beneath Thine own almighty wings. Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

  Thomas Ken

  Life, Running, Morning

  "Awake my soul, and with the sun" (hymn) (1695)

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• It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely true; never statistics, nor fiction, nor news, nor reports, nor periodicals, but only great poems, and when they failed, read them again, or perchance write more. Instead of other sacrifice, we might offer up our perfect (teleia) thoughts to the gods daily, in hymns or psalms. For we should be at the helm at least once a day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

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• Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Safety, Liberty, Essentials

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• The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Space, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1921). “Representative men. Miscellanies”

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